New Delhi, Oct. 21 -- Deep strikes rattle Russia's energy web, 192 miners reach daylight in Ukraine, and Washington flirts with a freeze that Kyiv vows to resist

Moscow - Before sunrise in eastern Ukraine, rescue teams hauled line after line to lift miners from the earth, faces blackened, voices hoarse, as an evacuation at a Dnipropetrovsk coal complex edged toward completion. By midmorning, officials in Kazakhstan were confirming what energy traders had suspected through the night, that a fire and shutdown at Russia's Orenburg gas processing behemoth had forced a halt in gas intake from across the border. By afternoon in Washington, the political argument over how to end a grinding European war hardened, fueled by reports that the Ameri...